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No. 650,662. Patented May 29, |900.

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BUILDING.

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srncrricn'rron forming part f Letters Patent No. stacca, dated May 29, 1906.

Application filed October 14,1899.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS A.'STINsON, a citizen of Canada, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bui1dings,of which the followingis a speciflcation.

The present invention relates more particularly to the class of buildings that are used for the storage of grain and thelike g but many, if not all, of its several novel features may be embodied in buildings for other purposes. My chief aim having been to provide a building particularly adapted for the storageof grain, I have selected this embodiment of it for the purposes of this application and have shown it as embodied in a bin structure comprising a number of vertical compartments. It will, however, be understood that the invention is in no wise limited to the number of compartments that the building may contain, excepting in so far as the invention or some features of it can be embodied only in a structure having a plurality of such compartments. In other Words, some features of the invention are applicable to a structure having only the outside Walls and without any inside walls or partitions whatever,while other features of the invention are applicable to and can have their embodiment in only such structures as have inside walls dividing them into a plurality of compartments.

The object of the invention is to provide a building of low cost which shall nevertheless possess the requisite strength and stability and which shall at the same time be of simplel construction. To this end, a suitable foundation being provided, I construct the building of horizontal sills or sleepers, ahorizontal course of flanged beams (preferably channel-irons) resting upon the sills and having their lianges presented upward, a horizontal course of thin sheathing, preferably corrugated sheet iron or steel, resting at its lower edge in the channelA formed by the upwardly-presented flanges aforesaid, a hori- Zontal course of flanged beams (preferably channel-irons) resting upon the upper edge of the sheathing, so that said upper edge of the sheathing occupies the channel formed by thefdownwardly-presented lianges, and means for securing the several courses toseritl No. 733,573. (No man.)

understood, I will describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are made a part hereof, and in which;

Figure is a sectional elevation of a structure embodying the invention, the section being taken on the line 1 l, Fig. 2, and the parts being viewed in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section thereof on the line 2 2, Fig. l, some of the features shown in Fig. 1 being, however, omitted'from Fig. 2. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one of the horizontal courses of flanged beams, showing their arrangement when channel-irons are used in a structure having sixteen rectangular compartments. Fig. 4 is a plan View of another course of channel-irons in the same structure, the difference between the two figures being that Fig. 3 shows a course having the anges presented upward, while Fig. 4 shows a course having the flanges presented downward. In the completed structure the course shown in Fig. 3 rests immediately upon the course shown in Fig. 4.. Fig. 5 is an enlarged sectional elevation on the line 5 5, Fig. 6, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 6 is a plan view on the same scale as Fig. 5 of a portion of a structure embodying the invention. Fig. 7 is a sectional elevation showing the manner of connecting Y the ends of the tie rods with the iianged beams. Fig. 8 is a section on the line 8 8, Fig. G, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 9 is a sectional elevation of a fragment of a structure embodying some features of the invention and showing the use of I-beams instead of channel-irons, as in the preceding figures. Fig. 10 is a plan view thereof with portions broken away, showing the arrangement of the I-beams.

A A are a number of heavy beams suitably supported and arranged to form sills, one sill being provided for each wall of the structure.

B B' B2, dac., are channel-irons arranged in a horizontal course (all in the same plane) upon the sills A and having their iianges presented upward, said chan nel-irons being suit- IOC shown in Fig. ft.

ably secured to the sills, so as to prevent their displacement.

C C' C2, the., are sheets of eorru gated metal, preferably steel, arranged in a horizontal course and resting at their lower edges in the channels of the channel-irons ll B', &c., the meeting ends of said sheets being permanently secured together by bolts or rivets c, the preferred manner of bringing said ends together being more clearly shown in Fig. G- that is to say, the final corrugations of two adjoining sheets are arranged eoncentrieally and the meeting edges of all the sheets are secured together by bolts or rivets.

D D' D2, duc., are channel-irons arranged in a horizontal course resting upon the upper edges of the corrugated sheets C C', the., and having their flanges presented downward, so that the upper edges of the sheets are received in the channels of the channel-irons D D', the. The manner of disposing this horizontal course of cl1annel-irons D D', tbe., in a structure having sixteen compartments (only two of which are fully shown in Figs. l and 2) is They are all disposed in the same horizontal plane, but with the end or ends of each abutting against the side ot' another or others. \Vherever it is possible, regard being had for their relations to the supe'rposed horizontal course, which is shown in Fig. 3 and will presently be described, I use pieces of channel-iron long enough to span two compartments of the structure,and I stag-A ger them in both directions; bu-t where it is not possible to use these long pieces pieces of practically one-half their length and spanning only one compartment of the structure are used. For example7 the long sections D', D2, D4, D5, D, andfD?, running in 011e direction, are staggered, and the long sections D8, D, D1", and D, running in the other direction, are staggered; but the two remaining long sections D12and D13 cannot be staggered, for the reason that the sections of this course of channel-irons shall break joints with the sections of the course shown in Fig. 3. The sections D, D2, and Dll and the corresponding sections at the other corners of the co u rse are of necessity short, and while this is unavoidable it is not objectionable, for the reason that the correspondingly-located sections ot the superposed course are long and break joints at the ends of thesev short sections.

E E' E2, the., are channel-irons which have their lian ges presented upward and which aie arranged in a horizontal course upon the corresponding ehannel-irons of the course shown in Fig. 4. As before stated, all the channelirons of this course (see Fig. 3) break joints with the chan nel-irons ofthe course last above described. For example, the section E overlaps the end of the section D, completely covers the section D, overlaps the end of the section D', and covers practically one-halt of the section D2, so that all the joints between D, D, D', and D12 are broken by the section E. lt is not necessary to thus follow out in detail the disposition of the several sections of this horizontal course of channel-irons, as it will be apparent from an inspection of Figs. 3 and l that the break-joint arrangement is adhered' to throughout, and the double-length sections are used wherever this can be done without bringing two joints together.

F F' F2, dce., are sheets of corrugated metal, preferably steel, arranged in a horizontal course resting in the channels of the irons E E' E2, dac., and forming the sheathing or walls of the structure, and G G' G2, dse., are channelirons arranged in a horizontal course resting upon the corrugated sheets F F' F2, dre., and having their lianges presented downward in the manner already described with reference to the channel-irons D D', dce., and the corrugated sheets C C', duc. In order to build up the structure to the desired height, the arrangement already described is simply repeated. y

The channel.- irons D D' D2, dsc., are scoured to the ehannel-irons E E' E2, che., by means of bolts and nuts or rivets, as shown at el, one or more oi' such bolts or rivets being passed through the web of each abutting end of each channel-iron of each horizontal course and through the web ot' the channel-iron of the next course which breaks the joint. The holes for these securing devices are represented by the large circles in Fig. 4, and the exact disposition of the bolts at the intersection of, say, the channel-irons E E E2 E3 and those immediately below them being shown on a larger scale in Fig. G. From Figs. 5, G, and 8 it will be seen that the long sections D' and E2, with their fiat faces together, cross each other at the middle. The extremities of the sections D2 and D2 abut against the sides of the section D', and the extremities of the sections E' and E3 abut against the sides of the section E2, the abutting extremities of the sections D2, D8, E', and E being secured to the webs of the sections D' and E2 by the bolts d.

II represents tien-ods passed through the webs of the channel-irons D D' D2, Ste. E E' E2, rbc., and l represents similar tie-rods passed through the webs of the chan nel-irons D D' D2, dse., E E E2, dre., G G' G2, dac., and the next horizontal course resting upon them for the purpose of holding the structure together vertically. Any desired number of these ticrods may be used, the perforations for them being represent-cd by the small circles in Figs. 3 and Lt.

For the purpose of bracing the structure horizontally tie-rods J maybe arranged across the several compartments of the structure, the ends of said tie-rods being connected with the flanged beams by means of hooks K, as shown in Fig. '7. Each of these hooks consists of a plate bent to form the three sides of what is substantially a rectangle, one side of each being perforated for the passage of the tie-rod, which' is held in place in the perforation and drawn tight by means of a nut IOO IIO

L. Any desired number of these tielrods may be used, and they may be disposed as shown in the drawings or in any other preferred manner.

It will be observed that at the intersections of the several channel-irons the hanges are left intact, and in order to accommodate them the corrugated sheets are notched, as shown more clearly in Fig. 8.

In order to shed water on the outside of' the structure and to prevent the lodgmeut of grain on the inside of the structure, the spaces between the upwardly-presented hanges of the channel-irons and the opposite faces of the corrugated sheets are hlled with cement or other substance, as shown at M, the upper face of this filling being sloped, as shown more clearly in Fig. 5.

It will be observed that a characteristic of lthe structure thus far described is that there are no upright beams or girders, the office of such beams or girders being filled bythe corrugated sheets, which have their vertical edges directly united.

I have shown in Figs. 9 and 10 a structure in which I-beams are used instead of' channel-irons. When I-beams are used, it is possible to use greater lengths,'or at any rate lengths passing a greater number of intersections, than where channel-irons are used. It is desirable, however, that in this I-beam structure the joints shall occur directly at the intersections, where for the purpose of supporting the webs `of the beams blocks N are arranged, said blocks being secured in place by the bolts which secure together the intersecting beams. Excep'tin g to the extent due to the diherence between the form of an I-beam and the form of a channel-iron the structure shown in Figs. 9 and l0 does not differ from that shown in the preceding hgures.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A building having plural horizontal courses of sheathing, hanged beams arranged between each course of' sheathing and the next and supported solely by the course of sheathing immediately below them, said beams being overlapped at their intersections, and means for securing together the overlapped portions of the beams, thereby forming of' them a connected horizontal framework, substantially as described.

2. A building having plural horizontalA them a connected horizontal framework, substantially as described.

3. A building having plural horizontal courses of sheathing made up of verticallycorrugated plates, means for securing together the vertical edges of the plates, plural horizontal courses of hanged beams arranged above and below each course of sheathingplates, so that the horizontal edges of the sheathing-plates are confined between the hanges of the beams, and tie-rods connecting each course of flanged beams with a course above it and a course below it, substantial] as described.

4. A building having plural horizontal courses of sheathing made up of verticallycorrugated plates, means for securing together the vertical edges of the plates, plural horizontal courses of hanged beams arranged above and below each course of sheathingplates, so that the horizontal edges of the sheathing-plates are confined between the flanges of the beams, the beams being overlapped at their intersections, and means for securing together the overlapped portions of the beams, thereby forming of them a connected horizontal framework, substantially as described.

5. A building made up of' a horizontal course of beams having flanges presented upward, a horizontal course of sheathing made up of vertically corrugated plates having their lower edges confined between the hanges of said beams, means for securing together the vertical edges of the sheathing-plates, a superposed horizontal course of sheathingplates similar to the hrst course, means for securing together the vertical edges of said sheathing-plates, hanged beams interposed between the two courses of sheathing-plates and having han ges projecting downward and confining the upper edges of the lower course of sheathing-plates, and flanges projecting upward and confining the lower edges of the upper course of sheathing-plates, said beams being overlapped at their intersections,means for securing together the overlapped portions of the beams, a course of hanged beams resting upon and supported bythe upper course of sheathing-plates and having flanges presented/ downward between which the upper edges of the upper course of sheathing-plates are confined, and means for connecting together the several courses of beams so as to prevent their separation, substantially as described.

G. A building having a horizontal course of sheathing made up of vertically-corrugated plates, the hnal corrugations in the vertical edges of adjacent plates being brought together, means for securing said final corrugations together, a horizontal course of hanged beams located below said course of sheathingplates and having hanges presented upward and confining the lower edges of the sheathingplates, a horizontal course of' hanged beams located above said course of sheathing-plates IIO and having flanges presented downward and'k confining the upper edges of said sheathingplates, one or more repetitions in vertical courses of the parts above described, and tierods for connecting the several courses of lianged beams, substantially as described.

7. A building made up of alternating courses of flanged beams and sheathingplates, each course supporting those above it, the top and bottom edges of the plates being confined between the flanges of the beams, and a filling occupying the space between the flanges of the beams and plates, the top surface of said lling being sloped toward the flanges, substantially as described.

8. A building having plural courses of sheathing-plates and channel-irons arranged in two horizontal courses between each course of' sheathing-plates and the next, the ehanedeea L. A. sTINsoN.

Vitnesses:

C. B. NELMs, A. M. TRAvnns. 

